Page 2 RAIN February/March 1983 RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology Volume IX, Number 3 Feb./March 83 Staff: Rob Baird Ann Borquist Nancy Cosper Steve Johnson Kris Nelson Contributors: Phil Conti Gail Katz Penny Fearon George Resch Robin Havenick Graphic Design: Linnea Gilson Comptroller: Lee Lancaster Printing: Daily Journal ofCommerce Typesetting: Em Space Cover Photograph: Ann Borquist RAIN Magazine publishes information which can help p>eople lead more simple and satisfying lives, make their communities and regions more economically self- reliant, and build a society that is durable, just, and ecologically sound. RAIN is published 6 times a year by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a non-profit corporation located at 2270 NW Irving, Portland, Oregon 97210, telephone 503/227-5110. Subscriptions are $25/yr. for institutions, $15/yr. for individuals ($9.50 for persons with incomes under $5000 a year). Copyright © 1983 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. IN THIS ISSUE... Articles The Bioregional Movement ...................................................................... 4 Self Reliant Cities ........................................................................................... 8 Thinking The Unthinkable ...................................................................... 10 Is There a Pothole in Your Future? .......... ............................................... 15 Investing in the Community ....................................................................... 18 Appropriate Technology in Oregon ......................................................... 22 Peacemaking ................................................................................................... 28 Features Calendar ....................................37 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report .................. 31 Access Bioregional Communication Vehicles .................................. 7 Community Economic Development ........................12 Raindrops .................................. 2 Rush .............................................38 Touch and Go .............................27 Good Reading .......................... 9 Organization Review ................26 Peacemaking............................... 30 Urban Agriculture ......................20 RAINDROPS The dead of winter and we are trying to imagine the hopes of spring that mav be evident by the time you read this RAIN. Pulling together the magazine during the dead of winter is always different. The mail is slow. Printers are backed up. People are difficult to contact. This year, RAIN's computer had a nervous breakdown — called an intermittent memory failure — while the humans at RAIN played host to the common cold. But through mail slowdown or whatever kind of weather— the RAIN must go through — and did. We had considerable more news and information for this issue than we could afford to print. Well, at least one person had a good idea. Betsy Timm, with the Farallones Rural Center, distressed to hear we had no room, offered to buy a classified ad. File this under publishing economics, example number 12. Another sign of hard economic times is dear to us as we receive more letters from periodical publishers regretting to inform us that they can no longer afford to exchange periodicals. Now we're probably no better or worse off than most, but if anything, in recent months we've INCREASED our number of exchanges, valuing them as an asset to the information flow in hard times. One periodical which could no longer exchange with us had only five readers in Oregon. In order to save a buck a year they cut their readership in Oregon by 20 percent — and maybe more since our copy of their periodical is used in the Resource Center library. We'd sure like to hear from anyone working on reasonable methods of evaluating the value of information. The next issue of RAIN will have a major focus on feminism, the state of the Women's Movement, and social change. Guest editor is Mimi Maduro, old friend, and RAIN board member, with on-staff assistance from Nancy Cosper. Write if
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